Re: Alpha-composition of two pixmaps

["Dmitry M. Shatrov" <erdizz rambler ru>]

Michael L Torrie wrote:

> It's not slow by definition.  Anyway it does use render directly.  So if
> you have an accelerated render driver in the X server, it will be plenty
> fast.  If not, then it will be slow even if you called render directly.
>  
I'm testing with plain 'trident' and 'nv' drivers. Beign not so deep in 
Render internals I expect that if antialiased fonts are fast, then any 
other composition operations will be fast as well

Dmitry